ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,888, issued on June 17, was assigned to Mitek Systems Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for updating an image registry for use in fraud detection related to financial documents" was invented by Matthew S. Kriegsfeld (Poway, Calif.), William T. Walker (San Diego), Yuriy B. Okrugin (West Orange, N.J.) and Michael E. Diamond (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising: a check Image Record (CIR) database configured to store, for each of a plurality of accounts, a CIR, wherein each CIR comprises feature information related to features extracted from a plurality of reference checks associated with the associated acc...